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Chapter 3, Part 3: Enma

"It's great to join the Spirit Hall!"

Luo carefully pocketed the gold soul coin that Su Yuntao had just given him and sighed inwardly.

Upon hearing Luo agree to join the Spirit Hall, Su Yuntao immediately pulled out a gold spirit coin from his pocket and forcefully stuffed it into Luo's hand, as a gift for their future collaboration as colleagues.

Although it's just a single gold soul coin, if used sparingly, it's enough to cover the living expenses of a family of three for a month.

This shows that Su Yuntao is very optimistic about Luo's future achievements, and is even willing to invest in him in advance!

All of this was predicated on Luo awakening a rusty katana with innate soul power at level seven!

(The prices in the original work were too outrageous. Here, I've set one copper coin to be roughly equivalent to one dollar, and 1 gold coin = 10 silver coins = 1000 copper coins.)

Then, Su Yuntao put his arm around Luo's shoulder as if afraid he would run away, and walked outside the wooden house to talk to Village Chief Jack about Luo's intention to join the Spirit Hall.

As for Tang San, who awakened the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, he was a rare individual with innate full soul power—Su Yuntao only mentioned it briefly and didn't elaborate further.

Village Chief Jack didn't care too much about this, even though he really liked the well-behaved and sensible Tang San.

But Tang San was someone else's child, while Luo was his own "child".

Between the two, one's own "child" is naturally more worthy of attention.

Originally, Holy Soul Village only had one work-study student spot at Notting City Junior Academy, but fortunately, out of respect for Luo, Su Yuntao gave an extra work-study student spot.

Although Luo is now exempt from living expenses and other tuition fees after joining the Spirit Hall, he still has to pay tuition for school.

To avoid paying these exorbitant tuition fees, he could only work as a part-time student, taking on tasks such as cleaning at the school.

Of course, these cleaning tasks were a piece of cake for Luo, and wouldn't waste much of his time.

With the power of the Op-Op Fruit, Law is the best cleaner in the world.

No one knows how to clean better than Luo!

Next, Su Yuntao earnestly instructed Village Chief Jack that Luo must go to the Spirit Hall in Notting City three months later when Notting Junior Academy opens to process his contract to join the Spirit Hall in the future.

If Luo doesn't sign the contract, he won't be able to enjoy the various subsidies that Su Yuntao mentioned!

After explaining everything, Su Yuntao left Holy Soul Village directly.

There are still several villages waiting for him to go there today to hold the ceremony for awakening his martial soul. He can't waste too much time in Holy Soul Village.

Otherwise, it will get dark soon!

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After Su Yuntao left, Luo put away his martial spirit.

This katana is nearly 1.3 meters long, almost as tall as Luo.

Although it looks rusty and seems like it would break if the wind blew it, it is not light at all.

Even if Luo tried to lift the sword with both hands, he would find it difficult to hold the position for long.

He estimated that the sword weighed at least ten pounds.

What should I name my martial spirit?

Luo walked on the road to the back mountain, pondering to himself.

Soon, the names of a host of famous swords surfaced in his mind—Shusui, Enma, Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, Bai Rui, Kiku, Ryuto Jakka, Hyōrinmaru…

After struggling with the decision for a long time, Luo finally decided to give up "Autumn Water" and name his katana spirit "Enma"!

He felt that Yama's lotus-shaped hilt had a strong Buddhist Zen-like quality.

Coincidentally, the name "Yama" also comes from Buddhism.

"Autumn Waters" is beautiful, but it is too elegant and serene.

Luo still prefers the domineering and majestic aura of someone who rules the world and sweeps across the eight wastelands!

He came to a large rock behind the back of the mountain and sat cross-legged on the ground.

After scanning his surroundings and finding no one else present, Luo extended his left hand, palm down, and silently chanted:

"ROOM!"

In an instant, a white whirlwind appeared in Luo's palm, quickly forming a pale blue, transparent spherical light shield.

The light shield suddenly expanded, enveloping Luo's figure within it, forming a "bowl" with a radius of about ten meters, which was turned upside down on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the light shield disappeared completely, leaving only a faint blue haze near the edge close to the ground.

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Actually, Law doesn't need to shout "ROOM" to use the power of the Op-Op Fruit; he just thinks shouting it makes him look cooler.

After summoning the "ROOM" space, Luo closed his eyes and carefully sensed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within it.

The so-called "Operation Fruit" refers to the user's ability to completely control everything in the "ROOM" space, just like a doctor performing surgery on a patient.

Whether it's non-invasive cutting, swapping positions, teleportation, electrical pulse shocks, or sound erasure...

All of that is possible!

Manipulating the primordial energy of heaven and earth within the "ROOM" space is also possible!

For the past two and a half years since he awakened the power of the Op-Op Fruit, Law has been using up all his soul power every day without fail to manipulate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the "ROOM" space and absorb it all into his body for cultivation.

If we compare the soul power within a soul master to experience points, then the soul master's soul power level is equivalent to an experience bar that holds those experience points!

The essence of Soul Master cultivation is to absorb the primordial energy of heaven and earth during meditation, expanding the "experience bar" within the body to accommodate more soul power.

Luo couldn't figure out the specifics of his cultivation for the time being; he simply stuffed a large amount of spiritual energy into his body.

As for how much spiritual energy he could successfully retain within his body and convert it into an "experience bar" that could hold his soul power, Luo did not conduct any specific tests.

Just keep practicing!

There is nothing that cultivation cannot solve!

If so?

Then let's continue our cultivation!

While Luo was cultivating in the back mountain, Tang San also showed Tang Hao his Clear Sky Hammer martial soul.

Overwhelmed with emotion, Tang Hao hugged Tang San tightly, tearfully instructing him to use the hammer in his left hand to protect the grass in his right.

After a heartfelt conversation between father and son, Tang San suddenly told Tang Hao that he wanted to join the Spirit Hall.

Upon hearing this, Tang Hao's expression suddenly changed. He slapped Tang San across the face and sternly declared that Tang San absolutely could not join the Spirit Hall.

Otherwise, he would have killed Tang San right now!

Although Tang San was very puzzled, he did not resist, but he complained about Luo in his heart.

If he hadn't seen that Luo would receive a lot of subsidies if he joined the Spirit Hall, he wouldn't have thought of asking Tang Hao to let him join the Spirit Hall as well.

Then he wouldn't have gotten slapped by Tang Hao!

Tang San naturally dared not blame his father, Tang Hao, so he could only vent his anger on Luo.

(End of this chapter)